All of you by now have seen, read and simply been overwhelmed with images, videos and commentary from the pundits, laymen and goons alike about the life and death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Here is another goon’s take on the issue.
The goal of these questions is to raise critical awareness about how each demonstration, protest and riot around the world is told to the rest of the world, and to imagine other ways to “occupy” a way of thinking.
When we read cables released by WikiLeaks, we should know who wrote them and for what purpose.
We are in this situation because our government has firmly decided to be an undeciding government when it comes to serious issues for the advantage of common citizens.
Surely a nation half a century old must ask itself the tough question, what has it done with its freedom? Are we freer from poverty than we were fifty years ago? Are our children more literate than they were in 1961? Is the life for a normal Tanzanian any easier fifty years after independence?
